[R] R and XML -- a near perfect combination?

[Duncan Temple Lang]

There is an R package for parsing XML available from
  http://www.omegahat.org/R/download/xml/index.html
(click on the R Package in the top right corned of the page).

I thought it would be useful to have people bang on it before I
announce it generally and also port it to S4/Splus5.  So all comments
would be greatly appreciated.

It has two styles of parsing: event driven and document/tree
construction, both allowing user-level functions to control the
processing of the different XML nodes.

This uses (either or both of) the expat parser from Jim Clark and
libxml from Daniel Veillard. Because of this, the installation is
slightly more involved than a simple call to make.

This is released under the GPL as part of the Omega project.


Duncan

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Duncan Temple Lang                duncan at research.bell-labs.com
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies    office: (908)582-3217
700 Mountain Avenue, Room 2C-259  fax:    (908)582-3340
Murray Hill, NJ  07974-2070       
         http://cm.bell-labs.com/stat/duncan

      "Languages shape the way we think, and determine what 
       we can think about."        
                                      Benjamin Whorf
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